Launched on November 1, the In-memory messaging application allows you to record messages, videos or even audio to send them after your death.
Save a message to say when you are no longer here. It's the idea of a French startup In-memory, which officially launched its eponymous application this Friday, November 1st. It allows you to prepare messages, photos, videos and audios to send them after your death. Users can also add documents to these messages.
The idea for this application comes from Christophe Marlot, after “the disappearance of loved ones and acquaintances in sudden circumstances or simply because that's life”, indicates the site.
Protected data
Once In-memory is installed, the user is invited to designate trusted people, i.e. people who will notify the application as soon as they become aware of their death. The messages he recorded will then be sent.
“The application helps you prepare everything,” assures the startup in a video. Users can use it to indicate their wishes for their ceremony, inform the beneficiaries of their goods or even send thanks to their loved ones.
The startup claims to have put in place measures to protect data on its application. For starters, messages are “automatically and immediately encrypted in their entirety” as soon as they are added by the user. In other words, only he and the person will see their content.
Once these have been sent, “your personal data – email and personal information – will be deleted within the time limits imposed by the legal retention obligations provided for by law as soon as the application service ends”, also affirms the startup, without giving more details.
To protect user accounts, In-memory also requires them to create a 4-digit PIN code, which will be requested each time they use the application. “The PIN code is not visible upon entry for security and confidentiality reasons,” the startup said.
Please note that the application is free to download, but it is necessary to take out a subscription to make the most of this service. The free plan only allows you to program one message (6 MB), a limit which increases to five messages (300 MB) with the Standard subscription (1.99 euros per month). With the Premium plan (6.99 euros per month), users can send up to 6 GB of messages. Finally, the Gold plan allows you to schedule messages without any limits, for… 349.99 euros per month.
